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ABTA HIGHER SECONDARY TEST PAPER
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2. (a) Answer any four of the following questions, each in a complete sentence: 1x4=4
(i) What was the price of the cake the boy was given a part of in 'Thank You Mam'?
Ans :In 'Thank You Mam' the boy was given half of ten cent cake.
(ii) What did Roger hear when he entered the house of Mrs. Jones?
Ans :When Roger entered the house of Mrs. Jones ,he heard the other roomers laughing and talking in the large house.
(iii) Where was the chanted-upon water taken in 'Strong Roots'?
Ans :In 'Strong Roots' , the chanted-upon was water taken home for invalids.
(iv) How long did the Tsar dig the beds?
Ans : The Tsar dug beds for two hours.
(v) What did the Tsar bring for the wounded man?
Ans :The Tsar brought fresh water for the bearded man.
(vi) Where, according to the narrator, were hardly any animals left?
Ans :According to the narrator, there were hardly any animals left in the forest near Dehra.
(vii) What seemed to be tantalizing the narrator?
Ans :The perfume from girl's hair seemed to be tantalizing the narrator.
(viii) How did Kalam's father bring the coconuts from the grove?
Ans :Kalam's father brought the coconuts tied together thrown over his shoulder.
(b) Answer any four of the following questions each in a complete sentence. 1x4-4
(1) What does the expression 'leprous hide' refer to?
Ans :The expression 'leprous hide' refers to rough bark of a tree .
(ii) What kind of a task is to kill a tree?
Ans : The act of killing a tree is a ceremonial task.
(iii) How does the stream move through the valley?
Ans :The stream moves slowly through the valley.
(iv) Where are the feet of soldier in 'Asleep in the valley'?
Ans: In 'Asleep in the valley' the feet of soldier are among the flowers.
(v) What are the short comings of the summer in comparison to the poet's friend?
Ans :According to the poet ,summer is transitory but his friend's beauty is eternal.
He wants to say that his friend is more lovely and temperate than summer's day.
(vi) What, according to Shakespeare, will his friend not lose?
Ans :According to Shakespeare, his friend will not lose the possession of his fairness.
(vii) What tires out the grasshopper?
Ans : The grasshopper is tired out with fun.
(viii) What brings warmth to the winter evening in Keats' "The Poetry of Earth?
Ans : The cricket's music brings warmth to the winter evening in Keats' "The Poetry of Earth".
6. (a) Do as directed 1×6=6
(i) "Why don't you look out of the window?" I asked. (Turn into indirect speech)
Ans :I asked why he did not look out of the window.
(ii) I did not know anyone else was here. (Change the voice)
Ans : It was not known to me that anyone else was here.
(iii) A man, getting into the compartment, stammered an apology. (Split into two simple sentences)
Ans : A man got into the compartment .He stammered an apology.
(iv) October is the best time. (Change into a positive degree).
Ans : No other time is as good as October.
(v) It takes much time to kill a tree. (Rewrite as a negative sentence)
Ans :It does not take less time to kill a tress.
(vi) Nature keeps him warm. (Use the noun form of 'Warm').
Ans :Nature keeps his warmth.
(b) Fill in the blanks with appropriate articles and/or prepositions:1×6=3
Others declared that it was impossible to decide before hand the right time for every action, but that, not letting oneself be absorbed in idle pastimes, one should always attend to all that was going on and then do what was most needful.
(c) Correct the error in the following sentence by replacing the underlined word with the right one from the options given below:
1x1=1
I had not the faint idea of the meaning of the Arabic prayer chanted.
I had not the faintest idea of the meaning of the Arabic prayer chanted.
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